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mr. burr: i stated larks mar alexander was nice enough to let me chair both the hearings. we're at least targeting in april to mark up the bill. i said at the beginning of the first markup, the only thing that stands in the way of us and re-authorization is a deep desire by members of the committee or members of congress to take a simple, bipartisan re-authorization and understand that we're opening up an act and that they see this as a train leaving the station and they want to put all sorts of other policy things in it. if that happens, in today's atmosphere, it makes it extremely tough to get across the goal line. because not only are we trying to manage a senate process, we have to game out a house process. so the question is, who goes first? what do you do? do you put certain things in here, you might know that it's the intentions of the administration, they've noted it, to move the management of a stockpile back to h.h.s. i think that's a good thing. that's how i originally envisioned it. had we had somewhere to put it back then other than c.d.c., we might have put it somewhere differently. but it makes a tremendous amo